38 research outputs found
Towards AoI-aware Smart IoT Systems
Age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a Key Performance Indicator
(KPI) for characterizing the freshness of information in information-update
systems and time-critical applications. Recent theoretical research on the
topic has generated significant understanding of how various algorithms perform
in terms of this metric on various system models and networking scenarios. In
this paper, by the help of the theoretical results, we analyzed the AoI
behavior on real-life networks, using our two test-beds, addressing IoT
networks and regular computers. Excessive number of AoI measurements are
provided for variations of transport protocols such as TCP, UDP and web-socket,
on wired and wireless links. Practical issues such as synchronization and
selection of hardware along with transport protocol, and their effects on AoI
are discussed. The results provide insight toward application and transport
layer mechanisms for optimizing AoI in real-life networks
On the Role of Age of Information in the Internet of Things
In this article, we provide an accessible introduction to the emerging idea
of Age of Information (AoI) that quantifies freshness of information and
explore its possible role in the efficient design of freshness-aware Internet
of Things (IoT). We start by summarizing the concept of AoI and its variants
with emphasis on the differences between AoI and other well-known performance
metrics in the literature, such as throughput and delay. Building on this, we
explore freshness-aware IoT design for a network in which IoT devices sense
potentially different physical processes and are supposed to frequently update
the status of these processes at a destination node (such as a cellular base
station). Inspired by the recent interest, we also assume that these IoT
devices are powered by wireless energy transfer by the destination node. For
this setting, we investigate the optimal sampling policy that jointly optimizes
wireless energy transfer and scheduling of update packet transmissions from IoT
devices with the goal of minimizing long-term weighted sum-AoI. Using this, we
characterize the achievable AoI region. We also compare this AoI-optimal policy
with the one that maximizes average throughput (throughput-optimal policy), and
demonstrate the impact of system state on their structures. Several promising
directions for future research are also presented.Comment: To appear in IEEE Communications Magazin
Age of Information in a Multisource Ber/Geo/1/1 Preemptive Queueing System
This work studies the information freshness of the vehicle-to-infrastructure
status updating in Internet of vehicles, which is modeled as a multi-source
Ber/Geo/1/1 preemptive queueing system with heterogeneous service time. We pay
attention to both the distribution and average of AoI. To fully track the
per-source AoI evolution, a Markov two-dimensional (2D) age process is
introduced. The first element of the 2D age process stands for the
instantaneous per-source AoI, while the second represents whether an update of
the concerned source is being served and its current age. A complete framework
and detailed analyses on the per-source AoI are presented based on the
Markovity of the 2D age process. By studying the state transition
probabilities, stationary equations, and stationary distribution of the 2D age
process, analytical expressions of the probability mass function and average of
per-source AoI are derived. Numerical results validate the accuracy of the
theoretical analyses